 kwa kata yangunilana? Miha nga kwa mwaka na siya, watunia wa kwa watunia, kwa kwa rati nga kila mwaka na isfcawa nwa waka mawa habia na tanya Wati wa. Kenenu ya ni nga wake ni nga netflix kwa siya. So, yana ya nga wake ni nga. Ya kwa tapo wa mwaka ni nga. Gafatata ni kwa aput maa na hwa ka kwa. I just saw the edits but sometime this coming year it will be released here and to just be presenting the best of what we have and just a series there are a series of short films that are being shot all over Africa so we did the Kenyan part of that. What's up guys? Welcome to SPM Bars. My good name is Miski Fingi and today I am hanging out with a star. Welcome to Bars with stars and today I have the most sought out director, filmmaker in Kenya, Enos Olik. Hi. Hi, how are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you doing? We are hanging out at one of the best spaces you will have for a content creator in Nairobi. It's called Selfie Village. Why Selfie Village? So basically I was tired of boring backgrounds but we went ahead and created a space, a content hub where guys can come in not only limited to just taking pictures and videos but create all sorts of content. We work of course with different brands and the space is just curated for content creators and you're trying to encourage guys to use your phone to create your content. The place is very well lit so even with just your phone you're able to capture as much as you want. We have over 18 different backgrounds that you can use for your content and we keep on changing them after about 2-3 weeks. We change them so that the place is refreshed. I mean it's a very beautiful space I can attest to that. Now Enos you've done this for a very long time in film making. I really want to know what is that one lesson you've carried with right now if you were to advise a 5-year-old or rather just someone who really wants to be where you are 5 years to come? I guess it's just hard work first. You just have to keep on grinding. You cannot escape that but always have to be wary of what is happening. The trends always be ready to change. Right now there's a lot of content creators and I think everybody is a content creator to their right. My Instagram page is like a TV channel. It's a whole TV channel and that's just where the media is shifting to. So you have to be able to see where it's going and just adjust to that and jump on the birdwagon as early as you can. I think what I've learnt over the years is we are not limited to what we think. We just need to go out there, be wild and keep on going until you get down and you still keep on going until you reach where you want to reach. We are not limited to anything. Now looking at the film and TV industry Enos, 5 years back right now where do you think we are? Right now we are doing good. We have more content. Now when I'm talking about content like series, movies, we have even more content on Netflix. We have more than enough content on showmax. We have even doubled up the amount of content that we are producing on the local channels. So of course it's going, it's not as fast as maybe we would have wanted but we are somewhere that 5 years ago we never thought we would be there. We have a couple of series, movies or Netflix and we are able now to also just present ourselves as guys who are able to handle even big productions. Talking about Netflix Enos, there's something you're working on. Siju if you're willing to give us some few details and when we can expect this big announcement. Which one? There are many. Okay, we are sorry. The project that you're working on Netflix right now. So yes it was announced. There was one, I've also in my own right worked as a consultant for a couple of other projects. Some which are already like on Netflix having played a very small role. We have Disconnect by Toshiki Tonga. Yes I played a role in that, I shot some scenes of that. There's also a project for upcoming filmmakers in Africa that was funded by Netflix. The one we were shooting was headed by Volin, an amazing writer and filmmaker. So it's being launched I think in the coming year. But it was already announced and all that but it looked good, I just saw the edits. But sometime this coming year it will be released. And to just be presenting the best of what we have. And just a series, there are a series of short films that are being shot all over Africa. So we did the Kenyan part of that. Such a great project to be part of for sure. Now Enos, away from the kariya, tu mongia kariya san na nadyo ma fans biawant ako connect na wewe. You know individually, what are your thoughts on marriage? Especially modern marriage? Because you know things have changed from how our parents used to be Kitambo and right now. What are your thoughts on modern marriage? It hasn't changed that much. Oh really? Ya, so that's what we think in the olden age, in our parents' time. We didn't have social media. We didn't have this form of communication that we can. Ha kwa na kubilutik. Ha kwa na ele ya kupigia uko api. So of course that affects how we interact with our different people, with our loved ones. But still the basis of it is still the same. We have a lot of, I would say exposure on what marriage is about. And it's sort of just adjusting to the time. We're in the new world, we're in the new, this is the future. So the future works differently like what was happening back then. But the basis is the same. Paarens badu alikwa na kusana. The same way people kusana sayi, alikwa na furiana. Stuff like that. It's just heightened because now we have technology. We have access to a lot of information. Everybody is empowered. And guys just live with it. Do you think social media makes it harder than it actually makes it easier? I think so. Ya, but it's also based on your character. Ya, there are people who just love being out there. And there are people who are more like hiding and all that. But it's just how your character is. But it doesn't change that because that's how people know you. If people know you to be an outgoing person and that's what you represent, then well and good. Ya. I know friends contribute a lot to just how much successful you can be. What is that one trait in a friend that if you see that in them, we cannot be friends? Unloyalness. Ya, you have to be loyal. But as much as we say friends really help you to grow. I think you need all sorts of friends out there. Ya, you need the person voice of reason. Ya, you need that person that you can always go to when you need, I don't know, it's relationship advice, financial advice. There's some people, you need some sort of friends who can just go and just have a nice time and just be stupid. So you need different sorts of friends so that you're able to relate to them depending on what you want at that particular moment. I always say every friend that I have in my life has a key to something in my life. Thank you for something for sure. Now as we wind up, Enos, what is your biggest achievement, something that you consider your biggest achievement right now? My biggest achievement, it depends where I am at the moment and of course being a father, my son is a very big, that's a big achievement. A lot of things we are still working on because I have dreams and goals that I want to achieve but I'm really working on them. So I wouldn't say that I've achieved something but I think I've achieved some, some steps of my final goal. So I'm always just working on to the next, if you call it achievement, but for me it's like I'm working to the next goal and all that. Raising a son and we always say that if you want to raise our kids, even have a better life than we did, what is that one aspect that you want to instill in your child that you probably just didn't get to have it yourself but you feel it's very important to instill in him? I think for me it's important to just, to dream, go wild. It's not that I didn't receive that. I actually had a lot of support for that when I wanted to do animation. My dad was the first one to buy me a computer. It was like I took a tune like this. Your dad was a special one. I'm sure you cannot test. Yes, but I just want to, of course, that's what I want to instill in him. Whatever you dream, if I want to be a swimmer today, but they start the classes next day, if I want to be this kind of person, it's a matter of just encouraging especially the dreams and especially if you see anything creative, that's what I'll just bank on it from the get go because it pays and that's what we live out for. We live out of our skills. We live out of our talents. So it's also just good to encourage them that it's okay to pursue your dream. It's okay to be you. Last question, Enos. I could go on and on, guys. Last question. I know challenges keep changing because I believe what challenges you face when you are starting is totally different from what you're facing right now. What are some of the challenges that you face as an established filmmaker? Rural to Abel, migration. But, of course, I would say infrastructure, but all of these are things that you're working on. We're not like Hollywood, we've made some strides and steps of course to become better and to get even more of our content better. Some of the challenges we used to have was of course like licenses, how to access when I talk about infrastructure. For example, how hard it is to just get a very nice place to shoot. The places that you get are very expensive. If it's a mansion unless you know your uncle or relative, but even if you get a location it is too expensive. But it's also because guys haven't been exposed to filmmaking and all this. What it can do to them. But if we realize slowly, actually guys are accepting it even more and more. So some of them are very little. The other ones are just things that we encounter when you're there, but more and more and I think I like what Sakaja was doing. Like the first time he was like you guys will not be charged to shoot in town. I think it's a right step and majority of that is also placed on how the constitution works and we need more laws to support filmmakers so that we can cover ourselves if it's how do we call them societies. CMOs, we are able to collect our royalties and royalties and all that and just generally grow from there. But so far I don't think there's any challenge that can stop somebody to do what they want to do. Guys are doing amazing stuff. Guys are doing international projects. Guys are living off their life from film. So we are actually not complaining. We are actually doing very good. We are now visa free to go to South Africa. Did that make it easier for you in any way? I wish it was like three years ago but yes, yes, yes and guys are already planning on how they can do that and even the visa free was not the main thing that really stood out for me. What stood out for me when that deal was being announced apart from the visa free they are actually going to create a deal a co-production deal with South African filmmakers and Kenyan filmmakers so I'm also very interested to see how that pangs out and that for me that's what really I loved about that deal. South Africa, of course the industry the industry is a little bit ahead of us but we always go producing with them when you're doing our films and all that so it would be interesting just to see how that will pan out but it's a good thing. That was guys filmmaker and also please tell your fans something as we finish up to all my fans just believe in yourself all those crazy ideas that you want to do do it because if you don't do it somebody else will do it and there's nothing as good as just being a pioneer or the first person to do a particular thing so just go out there do your stuff nowadays the way technology has really grown we don't need heavy equipment we don't need heavy gear and with the advent of such spaces like Selfie Village you can just come you have ready made backgrounds and you can create your content I think we are really growing into where it's just to be based on your creativity not how much you can access so that's all I can say. Alright guys thank you so much for watching this was Eno Solik most sought out filmmaker in the country right now thank you so much my name is Whisky Tinge until next time, stay tuned